Triple-digit temperatures are expected to scorch Denver on Monday as hot, dry weather continues across Colorado, according to the National Weather Service.
Temperatures in the city are forecast to Monday afternoon, which would tie Denver’s record for the hottest July 28, .
This comes after the high of 97 degrees the city hit on Sunday, .
That’s just short of Denver’s 98-degree record high for July 27, set in 1964, .
Northern Colorado and the state’s Eastern Plains saw temperatures hover in the high 90s on Sunday, with several areas hitting 100 degrees, and that heat will continue Monday, weather service forecasters said.
Monday afternoon temperatures are forecast to hit 102 degrees in Fort Morgan, 103 degrees in Sterling, 102 degrees in Greeley and 99 degrees in Fort Collins, according to the .
Afternoon showers and thunderstorms will return Tuesday and Wednesday, forecasters said in a .
The return of rain will bring with it an elevated flood threat on Tuesday and a high flood threat on Wednesday for the Front Range and Eastern Plains, according to the .
The most rain is expected in the northeast corner of Colorado, including parts of Weld, Morgan, Logan, Sedgwick and Phillips counties, according to the department’s flood threat bulletin.
But Denver and the surrounding metro area could still see between 1.5 and 2 inches of rain per hour during Wednesday’s storms, according to the bulletin.
That’s the equivalent of 19.5 to 26 inches of snow, meteorologists with the said.
